Laguna Beach is coordinating city department efforts for the Independence Day holiday weekend. The city is also working with Orange County Sheriff's Department and OC Parks to ensure all areas in and around Laguna Beach are safe.
Great-grandfather Franklin Reed built a small cottage on Ocean Avenue in 1903, about the time plein air artist Norman St Clair first painted in Laguna Beach and businessman Elmer Jahraus moved to Laguna and opened a cigar factory and curio shop in the Beach Hotel.
It is nearly the Fourth of July holiday weekend, and the peak of our busy summer season is upon us. This is the time of year we remind ourselves of just how lucky we are to live and work in a community as beautiful as Laguna Beach.